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The top 3 inches of an acre of soil may contain billions of nematodes, this type of creature

3 calves created this way made headlines back in 1988

Classed as a subphylum of the chordates, they make up about 3 percent of animal species, including mammals

A few hundred million years ago some plants had the bright idea to protect & spread their embryos in these

In cell division, mitosis splits the nucleus & cytokinesis splits this liquid cushioning the nucleus

Julius von Sachs found that starch was a product of this process in green plants

In 1815 William Prout hypothesized that this was the fundamental atom & all other atoms were made of it

Using a piece of Iceland spar, a French physicist polarized this in 1808

The name of this 1877 invention is from the Greek for "sound writing"

In 1848 he set absolute zero at -273 degrees C.; it was found later that it is actually -273.16 degrees